Looooong Coach D article - well worth the read.

East Lansing — Rolling down a steep San Francisco hill, Mark Dantonio hung on to the cable car's handle and stayed planted on an outside running board that kept him from tumbling onto Powell Street.

Ahead lay San Francisco Bay's blue water and gold-white clouds. This was exhilarating, this perfectly permissible ride, last spring, on the outer edge of a historic vehicle, minus seat belt or some authority figure ordering him to get his tail inside and sit down.

Kids have this kind of fun, often on a farm where travel can be rustic and rules are loose. But to discover moments so free and borderline naughty, yet safe, in a town of pure enchantment where a 59-year-old head football coach could travel with his wife in relative anonymity, well, this was the way to celebrate Mark and Becky Dantonio's 25th wedding anniversary.

"Did the whole thing — Fisherman's Wharf, Napa Valley, saw the Redwood trees," Dantonio was saying last week in his second-floor office at the Skandalaris Center, across the street from Spartan Stadium.

In a parallel sense, Dantonio and his seventh-ranked Michigan State team are hoping to do the whole thing this autumn: Big Ten championship, College Football Playoff, and who knows what if they can handle those first two items. It figures to be some trick in the Big Ten, where last year's national champion, Ohio State, resides and where most teams, including one in Ann Arbor, are planning a 2015 ambush against the Spartans.

Dantonio's gang won eight games in 2008,

MSU snapped back in 2013 to win 11 games, beating Ohio State in the Big Ten championship, and stuffing Stanford at the Rose Bowl.

It was a tough season to match, 2013, but last year's Spartans again won 11 games, including one of those you're-kidding-me comebacks in sniping Baylor, 42-41, at the Cotton Bowl.

Dantonio knows MSU came up short in all facets last October in a home loss to Ohio State, college football's eventual national champion.

Blanch32 wrote:Yawn.

Honestly what was new in this article? Dantonio vacationed in norcal?  Wow so newsworthy

LooseGoose wrote:

Blanch32 wrote:Yawn.

Honestly what was new in this article? Dantonio vacationed in norcal?  Wow so newsworthy

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